John Parra

John Parra is the award-winning illustrator of many books for young readers, including Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos by Monica Brown, which was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book, and Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans by Phil Bildner, which won the Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Illustration and was a Bank Street Best Book of the Year. His illustrations for Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors, written by Roseanne Greenfield Thong, received a Pura Belpré Honor. John was inspired by local neighborhoods and murals in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, while working on this book. 

From the dust jacket of Hey, Wall: A Story of Art and Community